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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... vol. 5 no. 126 (New Series) 29 August 1868 of The Australasian est. 1864 The Australasian
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1868 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Favourite Gift Books, single work advertisement

An advertisement for 'handsomely bound' gift books available from George Robertson, 'importer of books and stationery'. Titles advertised include Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Aesop's Fables.

 (p. 258)
History and Biography, single work advertisement

An advertisement for 'new and popular works' of history and biography available from George Robertson, 'importer of books and stationery'.

 (p. 258)
Presents and Prize Books, single work advertisement

An advertisement for 'new and popular books' for the young available from George Robertson, 'importer of books and stationery'.

 (p. 258)
Poetry and the Drama, single work advertisement

An advertisement for 'new works, and new editions of standard works' of poetry and drama, available from George Robertson, 'importer of books and stationery'. Titles advertised include poetry by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Geoffrey Chaucer and Edgar Allan Poe.

 (p. 259)
Popular Comic Illustrated Works, single work advertisement

An advertisement for various humorous illustrated works, including pictures from Punch, available from George Robertson, 'importer of books and stationery'.

 (p. 259)
Charles Muskett, Bookseller and Stationer, single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Melbourne bookseller and stationer, Charles Muskett.

 (p. 259)
Dwight's Catalogue : 4,800 Lots, single work advertisement

An advertisement for Dwight's catalogue containing 4,800 lots 'forming the best miscellaneous collections, new and secondhand, hitherto published in Australia'.

 (p. 259)
Poe's Poetical Works, Australian Edition, single work advertisement

An advertisement for an 'Australian edition' of Edgar Allan Poe's poetical works, 'just published' and available from George Robertson.

 (p. 259)
The End of the 15th Century, George Eliot , extract poetry (p. 263)
Song [Day Is Dying!], George Eliot , extract poetry (p. 263)
Fashionable Street-Sweepersi"Splashing through the gutters,", single work poetry humour (p. 263)
The Spanish Gypsey [sic], single work review
— Review of The Spanish Gypsy George Eliot , 1868 single work poetry ; (p. 264)
The Melbourne Hounds, 'Actaeon' , single work correspondence

'Actaeon' provides an account of a day's hunt in Melbourne.

 (p. 267)
The Peripatetic Philosopher, Q. , single work prose satire

Q. muses on matters political and social. Included in his subjects is an observation on an advertisement placed in newspapers in Victoria by a Miss Talbot. The lady offers, for 'thirty twopenny stamps', to provide full directions for 'the new and beautiful art of getting up the face and eyes in the most brilliant style'.

Q. praises Miss Talbot's endeavours, quoting John Milton's 'L'Allegro' and Algernon C. Swinburne's 'Hymn to Proserpine' in the process.

 (p. 273)
The Theatres, &c., Jaques (fl. 1866-1868) , single work review
— Review of Paul Pry John Poole , 1825 single work musical theatre ; Milky White Henry Thornton Craven , 1864 single work drama ; The Serious Family Morris Barnett , 1849 single work drama ; Martial, the Adventurer; or, the Merchant's Daughter 1868 single work drama ;

A review of the performance of John Poole's Paul Pry, Henry Thornton Craven's Milky White and Morris Barnett's The Serious Family at the Theatre Royal, and of Martial, the Adventurer at the Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, Melbourne, August 1868.

 (p. 274)
Spurgeon's Sermons, single work advertisement

An advertisement for Charles Haddon Spurgeon's sermons 'in large quantities', available from Buzzard, Melbourne.

 (p. 284)
Nicoll's Alphabeti"A stands for Artists of skill and repute,", single work poetry (p. 285)
Melbourne Trade Address Directory, single work advertisement

The Melbourne Trade Address Directory lists businesses alphabetically by type. The list, when first published (8 August 1868), included 'Booksellers & Stationers' (T. M. Buzzard, Charlwood & Son, Samuel Mullen, H. T. Dwight and G. Nichols) and 'Printers & Publishers' (Mason, Firth & Co., and Stillwell & Knight). On its subsequent appearances (15 August 1868 onwards), bookseller and stationer A. J. Smith was added to the list.

 (p. 288)
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